Last week Jen and I attended actor/winemaker Kyle MacLachlan’s wine tasting event at Metropolitan Market in Sammamish. We normally only cover and write about wine that you can taste in Woodinville tasting rooms, but this event sounded really fun and intriguing. We’ll call it a field trip!
We enlisted a passerby to take our (blurry!) photograph with the winemaker. We tasted his wine, the Pursued by Bear “Baby Bear” 2014 Syrah. (The 2013 “Baby Bear” got 91 points at Wine Enthusiast). The grapes were grown at the Phinny Hill and Lewis Estate vineyards. Only 384 cases of this wine were produced.
Jen and I both bought a bottle of the Syrah, which the winemaker kindly autographed for each of us. We found him very personable, and patient with the fans in line who gushed about his movies but didn’t ask any questions about the wine. As you can imagine, we pestered him to make his wine available in a Woodinville tasting room!
We enjoyed our little field trip, but then it was time to return to our homes and get back to writing about Woodinville tasting rooms!
-Carrie
RESOURCES:
Pursued by Bear Wine on Facebook
Hollywood Star Kyle MacLachlan Returned to Washington to Make Wine (Seattle Times Pacific NW Magazine)
QA with Kyle MacLachlan on Being the Ambassador for Washington State Wine (Seattle Magazine)
Kyle MacLachlan’s Toughest Role: Winemaker (The Daily Beast)
The Star of ‘Twin Peaks’ Makes the Best Celebrity Wine (Vinepair)
